What are Tannins? Tannins are derived from the skin, seed, and stem of grapes, they are responsible for your face distorting when drinking red wine. Try adding a little water, and sugar or brewing the wine for longer. Tannins: – If your mulled wine is missing the mark, it could be the tannin’s fault. Quick Tip – Combining a sweet and dry wine gives you robust flavour without needing to add additional sugar or water.
Avoid adding them while the wine is still brewing as the alcohol may evaporate.Ĭombination of wines: – Mixing varieties of wines is a great way to fine-tune our slow cooker mulled wine recipe. More alcoholic (warm body): – Adding port, sherry, brandy, vodka, or other spirits will obviously increase the alcohol content. Boiling mulled wine will cause the alcohol to evaporate, removing the lid while boiling with reducing the volume, making it sweeter and spicier. Less alcoholic (strong spice flavour): – Choose a sweeter less alcoholic wine ie dolce rosso or Moscato. Caution the brew does not boil, this will reduce the alcohol content and increase the spice flavour. This method is ideal if you’re using a good bottle of wine you wish to lightly infuse with spice. Add a cup of port, sherry, or brandy to increase the alcohol content and improve the mulled wine warming effect.įast brewing (stronger wine flavour): – By using the high setting on your slow cooker you can create mulled wine for 1 – 2 hours or even less. This will cause the mulled wine to become thicker, darker and spicier. About an hour before you wish to drink the wine remove the lid and allow the brew to reduce by 10 – 20%. After a couple of hours of cooking the mulled wine aroma will start to fill your kitchen, resist the urge & allow the spices to infuse all day.
Slow brewing (strong spice flavour): – Mix our mulled wine spice packet with your choice of wine in a slow cooker, utilizing the low setting.
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